Buying A Website Through An Auction Site

Mark Walters — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:59:37 +0000

If you want to earn an online income, then you need to have your own website. There are two ways of achieving this - building your own or buying one that already been built.

Building your own website is not as difficult as you may think it to be, and there are plenty of free online guides around to help you do so, but it will take up a fair amount of your time. There is the initial designing and coding of the website to think about, then you have to write several pages of content for it, and then you have to get it indexed and ranking well in the search engines. On the plus side, it can de done very cheaply, if you do all of the work yourself, then your total outlay could be as low as just $20, which is the cost of buying a domain name and hosting your website on a server for a year.

However, if you do not have the time to go through the self-build process, or if you have some spare cash available, then buying a pre-made, and already performing website, might be the best option for you. If you go down this route, as well as saving yourself time, you will be in a position to start making money straight away, as you will already have the basics and, most importantly, a good flow of existing traffic, in place. Having those foundations to build upon will make your rate of progress much quicker too, as the older a website is, the more authority it is given by the search engines, and the easier you will find it to rank highly in Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Buying an established website is easy enough, as there are a number of online auction websites that cater specifically for the purpose. On them, you can find hundreds of websites for sale, on every topic imaginable. Whatever budget you have, and whichever niche you are looking to target, you will be sure to find just what you want.

You need to keep a calm head though, and think with your head and not your heart. Remember that you want a website that makes you money, and not just one that looks nice. Therefore, ask the seller lots of questions, and ensure that you are 100% knowledgeable on at least the following information before making an offer...

-The monthly income of the website

-How many unique visitors the website attracts each month

-How well the website ranks in each of the search engines

As for how much you can expect to pay, it is generally accepted that the price of a website is equal to 10 times its monthly income. So, for example, a website that earns $100 a month, would be worth around $1000. This can normally be negotiated on though and, as sales are typically made in an auction setting, there are some real bargains to be had.

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